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    Finally got vista 64 bit working.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by masterchef341, May 4, 2008.

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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    It requires finding the bootcamp 2.0 installer that supports 64 bits, then finding video card and wifi drivers on your own. seems like everything else is supported by boot camp, and the bootcamp 2.1 update works only if the proper 64 bit version of boot camp is installed in the first place.
     
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    any comments on how it compares to OS X?
     
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    It doesn't :p
     
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    Yo masterchef, mind providing links to where you found the video card and wifi card drivers? :D
     
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    i got all the drivers from laptopvideo2go.com

    i picked up the newest wifi atheros drivers for vista and the newest 175.xx drivers for vista also.

    windows vista 64 ran crysis about as fast as xp as far as I could tell. I was using the dx10 64 bit executable. my guess is that dx10 + vista slowed things down and 64 bits sped things up, giving a whopping net gain of approximately 0. I neglected to do any benchmarking but I assume I am approximately correct.

    OSX is much better than Vista. No doubt. For a million reasons. I'll note one. Vista suffers from unusual performance problems, especially hard drive read and write times. The install for crysis took forever. Maybe 3x as long as with XP. Also, sometimes you launch a program and you sit there waiting, and then you start to think it didn't work... and you just wait... and THEN it opens.

    XP is also better for the virtual machine. Its light enough on the resources that 512 megs of ram or so is OK for xp vm usage. 512 megs of ram is just not enough for vista. You need to dedicated a solid GB of ram just to make ends meet for the VM. Basic OS functions are unreasonably sluggish with 512 MB of ram. I hold the opinion that if you want to dual boot, dual boot ubuntu 8.04 64 bit, or XP if you want to game, or MAYBE 64 bit vista if you have 4GB's of ram and also want windows games.
     
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    Where did you get the newest Atheros drivers?
     
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